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Participation in DIS2024

Laia Turmo Vidal and José Vega-Cebrián participated in DIS2024, the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024 conference, which took place in ITU Copenhagen, Denmark, between the 1 and 5 of July 2024. They presented the following papers, which you can find in open access:

Participation in ESCAN 2024

Amar D’Adamo, Marte Roel and Karunya Srinivasan participated in ESCAN 2024, the 7th bi-annual ESCAN (European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience) meeting which took place in Ghent, Belgium, between the 22nd and 25th of May 2024. They presented the following posters: Social Support Influences the Malleability of Body Perceptions (D’Adamo, A, Sánchez, A., Tajadura-Jiménez, A.) Multisensory signals are a necessary anchor for the auditory Pinocchio illusion (Roel Lesur, M., Longo, M., Tajadura-Jiménez, A.) Researching body perception: towards an integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches to address the multiplicity of bodily experiences (Roel Lesur, M., Turmo Vidal, L., Slatman, J., Väljamäe, A., Tajadura-Jiménez, A.) Drawing a Straight Line From Body to Mind – The cognitive consequences of training the body in the process of drawing a perfectly straight line free-hand (Srinivasan, K., Soto-Faraco, S.)

Participation in CHI 2024

Amar D’Adamo participated in the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), in Honolulu, Hawaii (May 11-16). He presented the following paper: Amar D’Adamo, Marte Roel Lesur, Laia Turmo Vidal, Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi, Daniel De La Prida, Joaquín R. Diaz-Durán, Luis Antonio Azpicueta-Ruiz, Aleksander Väljamäe, and Ana Tajadura-Jiménez. 2024. SoniWeight Shoes: Investigating Effects and Personalization of a Wearable Sound Device for Altering Body Perception and Behavior. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 93, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642651

Participation in TEI’24

José Vega-Cebrián participated in the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24), in Cork, Ireland, (February 11-14) with a demo and two paper presentations: José Manuel Vega-Cebrián, Elena Márquez Segura, and Ana Tajadura-Jiménez. 2024. Towards a Minimalist Embodied Sketching Toolkit for Wearable Design for Motor Learning. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 73, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3635253 Elena Márquez Segura, José Manuel Vega-Cebrián, Andrés A. Maldonado Morillo, Lara Cristóbal Velasco, and Andrea Bellucci. 2024. Embodied Hybrid Bodystorming to Design an XR Suture Training Experience. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633362 Laia Turmo Vidal, Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, José Manuel Vega-Cebrián, Judith Ley-Flores, Joaquin R. Díaz-Durán, and Elena Márquez Segura. 2024. Body Transformation: An Experiential Quality of Sensory Feedback Wearables for Altering Body Perception. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 25, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633373

Academic Mindtrek 2023: On Futuring Body Perception Transformation Technologies: Roles, Goals and Values

We are presenting our paper On Futuring Body Perception Transformation Technologies: Roles, Goals and Values at the 26th International Academic Mindtrek conference, between the 3rd and 6th of October 2023 in the Nokia Arena, Tampere, Finland. We will be part of Session 6: Fictional, Speculative and Critical Futures, on Thursday, October 5th, from 13:45 to 15:10. See here the full program. The paper’s abstract: Body perception transformation technologies augment or alter our own body perception outside of our usual bodily experience. As emerging technologies, research on these technologies is limited to proofs-of-concept and lab studies. Consequently, their potential impact on the way we perceive and experience our bodies in everyday contexts is not yet well understood. Through a speculative design inquiry, our multidisciplinary team envisioned utopian and dystopian technology visions. We surfaced potential roles, goals and values that current and future body perception transformation technologies could incorporate, including non-utilitarian purposes. We contribute insights on such roles, goals and values to inspire current and future work. We also present three provocations to stimulate discussions. Finally, we contribute methodologically with insights into the value of speculative design as a fruitful approach for articulating and bridging diverse perspectives in multidisciplinary teams.

BRNet 5: Body Representation Network Conference 2023

We co-organized the Body Representation Network Conference 2023: The interactive body: Multisensory and embodied signatures of bodies interacting in the world, in Mallorca, Spain on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th September 2023. From the BRNet 5 conference site: We usually take the ability to identify our body as our own for granted, but empirical research in the past few decades has shown that our body representations rely on the cognitive ability to combine information about the body originating from different sensory modalities. Indeed, the development of our models of the self and the world around us relies on the contribution of both exteroceptive (e.g., visual, tactile and auditory cues) and interoceptive (e.g., physiological) bodily signals. The present conference aims to discuss recent research lines that, albeit different, converge on the idea that the experience of our body is not a fixed phenomenon but rather an active, ever changing and dynamic process. It relies on the interplay between environmental, interoceptive, and exteroceptive bodily signals which are received during motor, social and technological interactions with the world and with others. The present conference will be of broad interest to researchers from different communities including cognitive, social, and affective neuroscientists, experimental psychologists, neurophysiologists, human-computer interaction researchers interested in the acting, sensing and feeling body in general and to researchers studying body representation, multisensory integration, interoception, virtual reality, robotics, embodied cognition, and the sensorimotor system, in particular.